Find WordPress Help With These Top 8 Official Resources

Here're the top 8 official WordPress resources that you should know to find WordPress help and support along your journey.

The WordPress software ships with a helpful Readme file (readme.html) that does an excellent job of introducing WordPress to beginners and helps users with necessary steps such for installing WordPress.

Surprisingly, what most users miss is one of the most important parts of the document that can be of enduring importance along their WordPress journey.

The WordPress introduction document highlights top 5 official resources that can be genuinely helpful to all WordPress users.

If you missed going through the section at the start of your WordPress journey or still looking for some of the official WordPress resources, here’s a brief overview of all the useful online resources.

In addition to the top five official resources listed in the readme file, I have included three more official WordPress resources that can be useful to most WordPress users.

WordPress Codex

The WordPress Codex is the official encyclopaedia of all things WordPress. If there’s one resource that you can remember and always refer to, it should be the WordPress codex.

The Codex is the official guide for WordPress, and you will see the pages from the codex linked everywhere to discuss and explain the features of WordPress. Consider the Codex as the online manual and documentation for everything related to WordPress.

You can get started with the Main page of the WordPress codex that has a listing of all subpages organised into useful categories. Learning WordPress, building Themes and Plugins, contributing to the WordPress development, and giving back to the software are the most important categories listed on the page.

WordPress Help and Support Forums

One of the most reliable places to ask questions related to WordPress and get your question answered quickly is the official WordPress support forum.

The support forum is the best place to find WordPress help on several issues from installation to Themes and Templates to Plugins and Hacks to other advanced issues.

You can start by searching the support forums to see if someone else had similar issues in the past. Most of the times, you will be surprised to see how many others had a similar problem as of yours. If you don’t find anything relevant, you can start a thread about your problem.

Please keep in mind that the forums are only intended for the core WordPress application, and themes and plugins that are listed on WordPress.org. Most premium themes and plugins providers provide their own support, and it’s not a good idea to seek help about such premium products on official support forums.

WordPress Blog

Yes, the software that powers millions of other blogs has its own blog. If you want to keep updated with latest news and information related to WordPress, make sure you follow the official WordPress blog.

The blog mostly has news updates about the most recent releases of the software including any security releases. A list of news categories covered in the blog includes Releases, Development, Meta, Security, Community, Events, Testing, WordCamp, General, and Documentation.

The news and updates on this blog also appear by default in your WordPress admin dashboard.

WordPress Slack Channel

Replacing the above mentioned WordPress IRC Channel and Skype, WordPress has made Slack as its primary real-time communication platform.

Modern, friendly, and powerful features of Slack make it the communication platform of choice. There are dozens of individual channels inside Slack facilitating communications for different groups, be that core, design, or marketing.

You can sign into Slack at WordPress.Slack.com and join the channels of your choice to get involved in the conversations.

Unlike IRC Channel, WordPress Slack channel, however, isn't intended to provide a support channel for WordPress users. The support forum discussed above is the best place if you need any help with WordPress.

Although you don't find a channel for WordPress help, there's a channel for Slack help (#slackhelp) that can help you with WordPress' Slack related issues.

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